Weed & feed for lawn?

RandallFlagg

Can anyone recommend a lawn weed and feed that works? I have used Westland' All In One last year and this year so far and it feeds OK but it's not killing the weeds and I have a plague of this small yellow flowering stuff that's doing my head in.

57Deluxe

difficult one, but I would choose Weed any day...

Jalapeno

Use Green Thumb - it's cheaper than buying your own chemicals (well it was for me)

EDIT: Neighbour used them and strongly recommended I do the sums and he was absolutely right - 2 tubs of weed & feed needed for my lawns was circa £40 ISTR, Green Thumb £23

Mark1960

I've used lawn sand for many years

ESBlonde

This year my weed n feed had to be watered in during the very dry spring. If the leaves and soil are not wet after application it doesn't work very well.

LastMantra

Some selective weed killer?

Keeping it nice and short helps too.

Lodious

+1 for Green Thumb, cheap, lawn looks great.

RandallFlagg

WFT is Green Thumb? it sounds like a nasty medical condition....I will look it up!

RandallFlagg

Just looked up Green Thumb and they don't cover my area. Original question still stands.

NelsonP

I use this stuff.  You need to be very careful not to overdose it or your grass will turn black in patches.  If you buy the spreader ad go carefully that's not a problem.

https://www.lovethegarden.com/uk-en/product/miracle-gro-evergreen-complete-4-1-28kg-carton

pintspiller

If you got weeds the soil could be conpacted. You probably have buttercups.  I'd recommend aerating it as well as using selective weed killer. I used to use Verdone but that no longer exists and I don't know what the best is now.

breezytele

I’d let the bees feed on those yellow flowers first !

I use a springy metal rake to drag out superficial flowers, moss etc 
That also helps clear some of the dead thatch
and I overseed with Johnson’s luxury lawn seed and water++

bit more of an effort, but my lawn isn’t that large 

rsvmark

Barclays is an excellent selective herbicide. Expensive but goes a long way

RandallFlagg

NelsonP said:

I use this stuff.  You need to be very careful not to overdose it or your grass will turn black in patches.  If you buy the spreader ad go carefully that's not a problem.

https://www.lovethegarden.com/uk-en/product/miracle-gro-evergreen-complete-4-1-28kg-carton

Got some of this Miracle Gro 4-1and put it down a couple of days ago, I'd had a couple of ciders beforehand so appear to have been a bit generous with the distribution and do have a couple blackening patches....ooops!

TheBigDipper

Jalapeno said:

Use Green Thumb - it's cheaper than buying your own chemicals (well it was for me)

EDIT: Neighbour used them and strongly recommended I do the sums and he was absolutely right - 2 tubs of weed & feed needed for my lawns was circa £40 ISTR, Green Thumb £23

We used Green Thumb for a couple of years. They're a franchise, I think. Initially, all was well and the ones serving my area  talked about "looking after" your lawn. Yes, it's cheaper than doing it yourself and storing the products, etc. They came and did the scheduled work as they were supposed to do, but never really "looked after" the grass, never proactively highlighted any issues to us (even though we had some). We ended up cancelling and we're back to doing it ourselves. 

rsvmark

Also recommend using lawn sand, (ferrous sulphate) to kill moss and toughen the grass. Spread by granules and water in. Follow up with a scarifier twice a year, once in spring and than agin in late autumn, and also aerate if you can before it gets too hard.

Dominic

Reading through all this makes me see why Lazy Lawn and similar have become so successful - only trouble is that it is very expensive to buy and install especially if you have large Lawns
 The cheaper products just don't look as realistic but the "Signature' looks fantastic 365 days a year